Technical Presentations
As part of the U of I Engineering Senior Capstone Program student teams are required to present a brief 15 minute oral technical presentation to EXPO judges and guests. These technical presentations take place from 9 a.m. until noon during EXPO at several locations within the Bruce M. Pitman Center. A schedule of all technical presentations, times and locations will be posted and available on the day of EXPO.
Technical presentation locations will include: the Borah Theater, Cataldo Room, Silver Room, Gold Room and Vandal Ballroom.
2018 EXPO Technical Presentations
Technical presentations will take place in multiple locations in the Bruce M. Pitman Center between 9 a.m. and noon (Vandal Ballroom, Silver Room, Gold Room, Cataldo Room and Chiefs Room).
Gold Room (Second floor)
Session A – facilitator Feng Li
- 9 a.m. — Application for Speech Visualization
- 9:20 a.m. — Modeling and Measurement of Permittivity for Near Space Communications
- 9:40 a.m. — Advanced Communications System for Suborbital Flight
- 10 a.m. — TATER (Tamper Analysis via Electromagnetic Responses)
Session B – facilitator Herbert Hess
- 10:40 a.m. — Mitigating Cyberattacks Caused by Fast Acting Hardware
- 11 a.m. — Solar Powered Flywheel Energy Storage System
- 11:20 a.m. — Voltage Source Converter Fault Protection
- 11:40 a.m. — Non-Wire Solutions to Traditional Power Grid Upgrades
Silver Room (Second floor)
Session A – facilitator Steve Beyerlein
- 9 a.m. — Boeing Sidewall Lighting Installation
- 9:20 a.m. — Coffee Roaster Filtration System
- 9:40 a.m. — SEL Thermal Card Guide
- 10 a.m. — An Aerodynamic Study of Bulk Commodity Trailers
Session B – facilitator Dan Cordon
- 10:40 a.m. — Combat Food Insecurity
- 11 a.m. — Portable Biodiesel
- 11:20 a.m. — UI Steam Plant Combustion Instrumentation —
- 11:40 a.m. — Two-Stroke Exhaust Design
- Noon — Clean Snowmobile Challenge
Vandal Room South (Second floor)
Session A – facilitator Joel Perry
- 9 a.m. — Discover Bot: Discovery Center Telerobotics Exhibit
- 9:20 a.m. — RoboCodo: Post-Surgical Elbow Rehabilitation Device
- 9:40 a.m. — Project A.R.M.: Assistive Rehabilitation Monitor —
- 10 a.m. — Aerogel Insulation Study
Session B – facilitator Bruce Bolden
- 10:40 a.m. — Wireless Tower of Lights
- 11 pm — Personality Analysis Using Machine Learning
- 11:20 a.m. — Sightless Navigation and Perception (S.N.A.P)
- 11:40 a.m. — Project VERITAS
- Noon — Virtual Control System Network
Chiefs Room (Second floor)
Session A – facilitator Matthew Swenson
- 9 a.m. — Inconel Tubing Pre-Pullout Grinding and Visual Test System
- 9:20 a.m. — INL Grinder Water Filtration System
- 9:40 a.m. — Wireless Forklift Height Encoder
- 10 a.m. — Compact Robotic Wheel Drive
Session B – facilitator Dev Shrestha
- 10:40 a.m. — VandalForge Metal Additive Manufacturing - Hardware
- 11 a.m. — VandalForge Printer Software
- 11:20 a.m. — Combined Biochar, Heat, and Power System
- 11:40 a.m. — Team Crumbletech's Temperature Array
- Noon — Photo-bioreactor for Microalgae Cultivation
Cataldo Room (Basement)
Session A – facilitator Matthew Bernards
- 9 a.m. — 99.9 Percent High Purity Nitrogen Generator
- 9:20 a.m. — Increasing Polystyrene Recycling with Small Scale Depolymerization Reactors
- 9:40 a.m. — Copper Recovery from Spent Hoof bath Solutions
- 10 a.m. — Production of Liquid Filled Polymer Microspheres
Session B – facilitator Matthew Bernards
- 10:40 a.m. — Gypsos Sulfate Removal from Mine-Impacted Waters
- 11 a.m. — Using NIR Spectroscopy to Control Coffee Roasts
- 11:20 a.m. — LABRAT, Lead Acid Battery Research And Testing
- 11:40 a.m. — Bench Top to Industry: Ultra-High Temperature (UHT) Starch Pasteurization Unit